Taken 2007 July 27 from Les Trous de saumons (Salmon Holes) Trail at the Fence Pool
GPS 46°38.412'N 60°56.676'W
Some fifteen minutes after leaving Les Trous de saumons Trail Head (beyond the campground at the Cape Breton Highlands National Park about six minutes from the parking lot), most of which time one hikes through the forest away from the river, the trail rejoins the river near the Fence Pool. Looming above the river at this point is the east end of the majestic Montagne Noire, whose sheer dark cliffs can be seen as a wide band of black colour above the trees on the lower and middle slopes and below those of the summit. Later in the day, the light allowed a better view of these cliffs from down below, but at this point they were as obscured as they appear in the photo.
The river is as boulder-strewn here as it was at the Cabot Trail bridge and apparently fairly shallow, but it is also now both noisy and swift.